ASL Lecture Series
| Year | Presenter(s) | Title of Presentation | Video | Flyer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Dr. Janine Butler | Captions and Subtitles: Accessibility and Creativity | View video | View flyer |
| 2026 | Sheena McFeely | Silence is not Golden | View video | View flyer |
| 2026 | Dr. Clifton Langdon | Numbers of the Mind: An Interactive Journey Exploring Numerical Cognition | View video | |
| 2026 | Dr. Corinna S. Hill | Still Our Second Home? A History of the Rochester Recreation Club for the Deaf | View video | |
| 2025 | Dr. Amie Fornah-Sankoh | The Science of Belonging | View video | |
| 2025 | Deanne Bray-Kotsur | Language Advocacy | View video | |
| 2025 | Brenda Flores | Bridging Worlds: The Role of a Trilingual Interpreter in American Sign Language | View video | |
| 2024 | Brandon Call | Wild Saga: Adventures Beyond Barriers | View video | |
| 2024 | Stina De Vito & Diletta Coppola | LIS-Italian Sign Language in the USA: a bridge between cultures | View video | |
| 2024 | Dr. Thomas Holcomb | Deaf Centered interpreting: the answer we’ve been looking for? | View video | |
| 2024 | Edgar Corres Veras | Higher Education and sign Language Policy by and for Deaf Students | View video | |
| 2023 | Andreas Bittner | Deaf Life in Germany: An Exploration | View video | |
| 2023 | Eric Epstein | Signplaying! | View video | |
| 2023 | Dr. Jami Fisher & June Goodwin | Philly Signs: The History & Stories of the Philadelphia Deaf Community | View video | |
| 2022 | Dan Veltri | Deaf Wisdom: How Deaf People Shaped My Career | View video | |
| 2022 | Tawny Holmes Hlibok | The Juxtaposition of Sign Language Policy | View video | |
| 2022 | Ben Jarashow | Deaf Villains in Hollywood Films and TV Productions | View video | |
| 2021 | Special Presentation: Joan Naturale, Christopher Kurz, Mireille Golaszewski | Franco-American Partnership in Deaf Education | View video | |
| 2021 | Keith Gamache, Jr. | From the Whole to the Parts | View video | |
| 2021 | Dr. Barbara Spiecker | Co-Navigating with ASL: Through the Lens of a Deaf Marine Biologist | View video | |
| 2021 | Daniel Durant | Breaking the Barriers: My Journey as an Actor | View video | |
| 2021 | Korian “Koko” Thomas | A Journey of Diverse Communication | View video | |
| 2021 | Dr. Leah Geer Zarchy | Imposter Syndrome and Victories | View video | |
| 2020 | Jeremy Lee Stone | Shaping My Identity | View video | |
| 2020 | David Call | The World Through the Eyes of a De’VIA Artist | View video | |
| 2020 | Dr. Donna Guardino | Deaf Interpreters: Central Players in Healthcare Access | View video | |
| 2019 | Mia Sanchez | What Color is Your Soul? | View video | |
| 2019 | Clifford “Earl” Terry | The Orature in the Black Deaf Community | View video | |
| 2019 | Suzy Rosen Singleton | Federal Communications Commission: Safeguarding Your Civil right to Accessible Modern Communications | View video | |
| 2019 | Dr. Caroline Solomon | Climate Change and the Deaf Earth | View video | |
| 2019 | Roberta Mather | Telling Your Story: The Power of Connecting Across Languages and Cultures | View video | |
| 2019 | Larwan Berke | Larwan Berke’s Life: Tech What? | View video | |
| 2018 | Sam and Barbara Ray Holcomb | Changing With the Times After 50 Years: Technology and ASL | View video | |
| 2018 | Dr. Rain Bosworth | How the Eyes “Read” Sign Language: An Eye Tracking Investigation of Children and Adults During Sign Language Processing | View video | |
| 2018 | Aaron Brace | Debugging my Interpreter Operating System: the other "iOS" | View video | View flyer |
| 2018 | Howard Rosenblum | Status of Civil Rights for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing People in 21st Century USA | ||
| 2018 | Soya Mori | International Issues on Accessibility for People with Disabilities: Focus on the Philippines and Japan | View video | View flyer |
| 2018 | Louise Stern & Oliver Pouliot | Interpreting the Communicative Interpreted | ||
| 2018 | Johanna Lucht | “Flying” through Barriers at NASA | View video | |
| 2018 | Michael Conrad | Chasing your Dream, One Step at a Time: A 4,463,779 Step Appalachian Trail Journey | View video | |
| 2018 | Linsay Darnall | The Importance of Being a Visionary Leader in Today’s Deaf America | ||
| 2017 | Norma Moran | Crossing Over | View video | |
| 2017 | Dr. Harry Lang | Fighting in the Shadows: The Untold Story of Deaf People in the Civil War | ||
| 2017 | Dr. Roslyn Rosen | LEAD-K: Getting Kids Kindergarten-Ready | View video | |
| 2017 | Storm Smith | The Naked Truth: Reclaim the Power of Self | View video | View flyer |
| 2017 | Dr. Marie Coppola | The Effects of Language Experience on the Development of Number Representations in Deaf, Hard-of-Hearing and Hearing Children | View video | |
| 2017 | Dr. Nancy Hlibok Ammon | The Value of Deaf Elders | View video | |
| 2016 | Dr. Ben Bahan | The Value of ASL Literature | View video | View flyer |
| 2016 | Robert Sirvage | From Stimulus to Shared Representation: Non-representational Convergence as a Foundation | ||
| 2016 | Kathleen Brockway | Wakening Deaf Culture & Bringing Values Back to the Deaf Community | ||
| 2016 | Dr. Raychelle Harris | ASL in Academics: Citing and Referencing Bilingually | View video | View flyer |
| 2016 | Trudy Suggs | Deaf Disempowerment and Today’s Interpreter | ||
| 2016 | Takiyah Harris | Black Deaf View/Image Art | View video | |
| 2015 | Dr. Debra Russell | Tapping into the Cognitive Processes: Use of Think Aloud Protocols with Educational Interpreters | View video | |
| 2015 | Dr. Khadijat Rashid | Deaf Citizens: Perspectives from Sub-Saharan Africa | View video | |
| 2015 | Dr. Isaac Agboola | Andrew Foster: the Courageous Life of a Black Missionary, Educator, Mentor, and Advocate | ||
| 2015 | Dr. Kim Kurz and Dr. Jason Listman | Resilience of Deaf Students in Postsecondary Education | View video | View flyer |
| 2015 | Dr. Flavia S. Fleischer | America’s Constructed Image of Deaf People as Drawn from Newspaper Articles on Cochlear Implant | View video | |
| 2014 | Dr. Paddy Ladd | A Long Strange Journey: More Than A Decade of Deafhood | View video | |
| 2014 | Arnaud Balard | Deaf Union Flag and Vexillology | ||
| 2014 | Braam Jordaan | The Animated Life of Filmmaker and Animator Braam Jordaan | View video | |
| 2014 | Dr. Curt Radford | Exploring the Efficiency of Teaching ASL Online | ||
| 2014 | Melissa Malzkuhn | The Science of ASL Storytelling | View video | |
| 2014 | Dr. Liisa Kauppinen | World Federation of the Deaf and Language Rights | View video | |
| 2014 | Scott Farrell | Legacy of Dummy Hoy: A Deaf Athlete’s Success Through Obstacles | View video | |
| 2013 | Chris Kurz and Albert Hlibok | Laurent Clerc’s Perspectives of Sign Language | View video | |
| 2013 | Thomas K. Holcomb | Introduction to American Deaf Culture | View video | |
| 2013 | Dr. Joseph C. Hill | Black ASL: Its History and Structure | ||
| 2012 | Dr. Harlan Lane | The People of the Eye – Deaf Ethnicity and Ancestry | View video | View flyer |
| 2011 | Louise Stern and Oliver Pouliot | Chattering – A Collaborative Performance | ||
| 2011 | Nancy Rourke and Warren Miller | Deaf Introspective | ||
| 2011 | Mark Zaurov | Deaf Jewish Life in Germany and Eastern Europe during the 1940’s | View video | |
| 2011 | Dr. John Bosco Conama | Equality of Condition and Deafhood | ||
| 2011 | Dirksen Bauman | The New Normal: Deaf-Gain and Biocultural Diversity | View video | |
| 2011 | Newby Ely | Deaf Nikkei incarceration in US Concentration Camps during WWII | View video | |
| 2011 | Dr. Keith M. Cagle | Are Some ASL Signs 1000 Years Old? | View video | |
| 2010 | Anne Marie Baer | Topicalization in ASL: Usage and Teaching | ||
| 2010 | Dr. Peter Hauser | Why Culture is Important: Role of Community Cultural Wealth in Deaf Education | ||
| 2010 | Dr. Anita Small and Joanne Cripps | Deaf Culture Centre: Vision to Reality | View video | |
| 2010 | Dr. Harry G. Lang | Biographical Research Can Illuminate Dark Corners of Deaf Studies | View video | |
| 2008 | Dr. Jordan Eickman | Tracing Deafhood: Exploring the Origins and Spread of Deaf Cultural Identity | View video | |
| 2007 | Dr. Peter Hauser | Signing in Public Spaces | View video | |
| 2006 | Guy Wonder | Storytelling through Art | View video | |
| 2006 | Dr. Carol Padden | Inside Deaf Culture | ||
| 2006 | Dr. Simon Carmel | Genre of Deaf Cartoons and Their Hidden Meanings | ||
| 2005 | Dr. Thomas Holcomb | A Sign of Respect | ||
| 2004 | Dr. Thomas Holcomb | See What I Mean? | ||
| 2004 | Dr. Deborah Sonnenstrahl | Deaf Artists in America | ||
| 2004 | Dr. Paddy Ladd | Understanding Deaf Culture: In Search of Deafhood | ||
| 2003 | Dr. Karen Emmorey | Language, Cognition, and the Brain: Insights from Sign Language Research | ||
| 2003 | Dr. Peter Hauser | Psycholinguistics of Deaf Readers | ||
| 2003 | Dr. David Quinto-Pozos | Contact between Mexican Sign Language and American Sign Language along the U.S. – Mexico border | View video | |
| 2002 | Vicki Hurwitz | Deaf Women History Resources | ||
| 2002 | Pamela Lloyd and Martina Moore-Reid | Sounds like home: Growing up Black and Deaf in the South | ||
| 2002 | Patti Durr | Crying Hands Eugenics and Deaf People in Nazi Germany | ||
| 2002 | Paula Grcevic and Patti Durr | De’VIA | ||
| 2001 | Sam Holcomb | Deaf Culture Our Way: Anecdotes from the Deaf Community | ||
| 2001 | Harry Lang and Bonnie Meath-Lang | Deaf Persons in the Arts and Sciences | ||
| 2000 | Dr. Barbara Kannapell | The Forgotten People: Deaf People’s Contributions During World War II | ||
| 2000 | Dr. Dirksen Bauman | Line/Shot/Montages: Cinematic Techniques in ASL Poetry | View video | |
| 2000 | Cindy Campbell | A Semiotics Analysis of ASL Poetry | View video | |
| 2000 | Dr. Simon Carmel | Deaf Folklore: Identity and Culture | ||
| 2000 | Brenda Schertz | What is De’VIA? | ||
| 2000 | Patti Durr and Paula Grcevic | Affirmation and Resistance Art Within De’VIA: Two Deaf Women’s View | View video | |
| 2000 | Pat DeCaro | Sign Me Alice and Me: Deaf Hearing Relations on Multiple Levels | View video | |
| 1999 | Dr. Laurene Gallimore | Diversity: The Change of Heart | ||
| 1998 | Don Bangs and Ernest Marshall | Moving Pictures, Moving Hands | ||
| 1998 | Dr. Marty Taylor | Interrelatedness of ASL, Interpretation, and Message Equivalency | View video | |
| 1998 | Dr. Douglas C. Baynton | Savages and Deaf Mutes: Evolution Culture and the Campaign Against American Sign Language | View video | |
| 1998 | Dr. Karen Christie and Dorothy Wilkins | Opening Eyes: Literature and Literacy Studies | View video | |
| 1998 | Dr. Harry Lang | Deaf Scientists: The Invisible Roles in the History of ASL and Deaf Community | View video | |
| 1997 | Byron Bridges | Importance of Non Manual Signals in ASL | ||
| 1997 | Dr. Elizabeth Winston | Spatial Mapping in ASL Discourse | ||
| 1997 | Dr. Christine Monikowski | Assessing L2 Proficiency in ASL with a Cloze Test | View video | |
| 1997 | Dr. Ted Supalla | Reconstructing the History of ASL | View video | |
| 1997 | Patrick Graybill | Translation: Challenges and Opportunities | ||
| 1996 | Dr. William Stokoe | Evolution of Human Language | View video | |
| 1996 | Deirdre Schlehofer | ASL in Society: A Sociolinguist looks at ASL | ||
| 1996 | Dr. Marina McIntire | How Deaf People Become So Expressive? | View video | |
| 1996 | Charles Katz | The Power and Promise of Deaf Studies | ||
| 1996 | Dr. Susan Fischer | Critical Periods | ||
| 1996 | Dr. Linda Siple | Use of Addition in Sign language Transliteration | ||
| 1995 | Shanny Mow | Quasimodo, Johnny Belinda and Children of a Lesser God | View video | |
| 1995 | Willy Conley | Thoughts from a Playwright: Building Plays with ASL and English | ||
| 1995 | Dr. Thomas K Holcomb | ASL in Educational Settings: Exclusive or Inclusive? | ||
| 1995 | Dr. Karen Petronio | Tactile ASL Used By Deaf-Blind People | View video | |
| 1995 | Matthew Moore | Read English, Think ASL: The Story of Deaf Life | View video | |
| 1994 | Dr. Susan Mather | Eye Gaze in the Classroom | View video | |
| 1994 | Raymond Luczak | Discovering ASL and Myself After a Life of Obedience | ||
| 1994 | Marlon Kuntze and Ed Bosso | Developing ASL and English Literacy | ||
| 1994 | Stephen M. Nover | The Politics of ASL in Deaf Education | ||
| 1994 | Carolyn McCaskill-Emerson | Deaf People of Color: What are the Real Issues? | View video | |
| 1994 | Anthony Aramburo | ASL and the African-American Deaf Identity | View video | |
| 1994 | F.R. Gomez | ASL in the Context of Hispanic Culture | View video | |
| 1994 | Yutaka Osugi | ASL is Beautiful; JSL is Also Beautiful | ||
| 1993 | Marie Jean Phillip | I vs. We | ||
| 1993 | Dr. Brenda Schick | Learners and Teachers: Who Teaches Whom? | ||
| 1993 | Peggy Hlibok | ASL as a Second Language in Public Education | ||
| 1993 | Dr. Lawrence Fleischer | Great Discoveries in Deaf Studies: The Coming End of Follies, Foibles, and Fallacies | View video | |
| 1992 | Dr. Harvey Goodstein | ASL Requirements for Gallaudet University Faculty | ||
| 1992 | Keith Cagle | The ASL Civil Wars | ||
| 1992 | Barry White | ASL Through the Camera Lens | ||
| 1992 | Evelyn Zola | The Art of Deaf Humor | View video | |
| 1991 | Bruce Hlibok | Deaf Theater: Fact or Fraud? | ||
| 1991 | Patrick Graybill | Original Poetry in ASL | ||
| 1991 | Ben Bahan | ASL in the Arts or the Arts in ASL | ||
| 1991 | Clayton Valli | Self-Discovery of a Deaf Adult | View video | |
| 1991 | Aaron Brace | On Becoming Real | ||
| 1991 | Barbara Jean Wood | You Speak So Well- Why Aren’t You Using Your Voice? | ||
| 1991 | Emory Dively | Keeping Ownership of Deaf Culture in a Hearing World | ||
| 1991 | Robert Cagle | Integration of English and ASL in My Life | ||
| 1990 | Mike Lamitola | Acting with ASL | View video | |
| 1990 | Dr. Harlan Lane | Deaf Advocacy, Oppression, and Social Change | ||
| 1990 | Dr. Sam Supalla | Language Access as it Relates to Education | ||
| 1990 | Dr. Elissa Newport | Critical Periods and Creolization: The Effects of Input and Age on the Acquisition of ASL | ||
| 1990 | Bill Newell | ASL Is Not A Four-Letter Word: Education Can Dance With Boogieman | ||
| 1989 | Marjoriebell (Mabs) Holcomb | Sign Language Across the Generations: A Personal History | ||
| 1989 | Gary Mowl | The Laurent Clerc Story | ||
| 1989 | Dr. Nancy Frishberg | Historical Change in ASL Structure | ||
| 1989 | Dr. Sherman Wilcox | American Sign Language in Schools: The Status of ASL as a Foreign Language | ||
| 1989 | Dr. Robert Johnson | Unlocking the Curriculum | ||
| 1989 | Dr. C. Tane Akamatsu | Educating Teachers for Deaf Children: A Model Preparation and Demonstration Program | ||
| 1988 | Brenda Liebman Aron | Historical Sketch of Sign Language | View video | |
| 1988 | Scott Liddell | Transcription Systems and Sign Language | View video | |
| 1987 | Patrick Graybill | Original Poetry in ASL | View video | |
| 1987 | Patrick Graybill | Translation as an Educational Tool | View video | |
| 1986 | Dr. Susan Fischer | Showing Cause in ASL | View video | |
| 1985 | Dr. Judy Shepherd-Kegl | Narrative and Discourse Structure |
